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Locke (8-1) was scored upon for the first time in four home starts but extended his unbeaten
streak to 16 outings. Locke, who hasn’t lost since his first start of the season, allowed two
earned runs on seven hits and three walks over 52/3 innings.

The Pirates took the lead with a four-run fifth inning, punctuated by Alvarez’s 21st home
run.

Andrew McCutchen reached base five times, scoring twice for Pittsburgh (52-31), which has the
major leagues’ best record and had a nine-game winning streak snapped in the series opener on
Tuesday.

Delmon Young and Domonic Brown each had three hits for the Phillies, who have lost four of
six.

LAST NIGHT’S HIGHLIGHTS

Yankees 3, Twins 2: CC Sabathia won his 200th career game and stretched his winning streak over
Minnesota to nearly six years.

Notable

Ramirez spent three months playing in Taiwan for the Rhinos before leaving the team on June 20.
The Rangers made the announcement of the signing yesterday.

Ramirez hit .352 with eight homers and 43 RBI for the Rhinos. The team tried to keep the 12-time
All-Star, but the 41-year-old slugger wanted to return to his family in New York.

Ramirez’s last major league appearance was with Tampa Bay in 2011

He is 14th on the career home run list with 555.

• Los Angeles Dodgers outfielder Yasiel Puig left the game against the Colorado Rockies last
night with a bruised left hip, an inning after running into the right-field wall while making a
catch.

Puig went back on a drive by Nolan Arenado in the fifth inning. Puig turned and made the catch
near the wall as his left leg hit the padding. He threw the ball in and then lay on the ground.He
was attended to by a Dodgers trainer, who appeared to be looking at his left leg, but Puig stayed
in for the rest of the inning.